Hurricane Sandy

ཆར་གྱིས་མཁར་ལ་གནོད་ན་ཡང་།།

འཇིག་རྟེན་པ་རྣམས་དགའ་བ་སྐྱེ།།

     - ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ

Even if rain damages a mansion,

It brings joy to worldly beings.

- Sakya Pandita

Here comes hurricane Sandy.

Just a State of Mind ...

I feel pretty bad that I've been in Nepal for so long and haven't learned very much Nepali at all. So I decided to do a comic in Nepali. The sentence is from a lesson in a textbook I have. He says "Yesterday I didn't go out. I stayed home." (हिजॊ म कतै गइनँ।  घरै बसॆँ। I think ... I'm not very good at typing in Devanagari).

Yesterday the rains finally arrived and I stayed inside nearly all day. There is something really nice about staying in when it is raining, but I want to get better about going out even when it is raining (everything's the same). Since my time in Nepal is starting to wind down, I also want to get out of Boudha a little more and see things that aren't just Tibetan (though I want to see a few more of those things too!). I'm saving some things for when Alex comes here in July (!), but getting out of Boudha and into the rain before then would probably do me some good ...

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